Building Better Opportunities
Building Better Opportunities
The Building Better Opportunities project, eMploY-ABILITY funded by the European Social Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund has now finished.
Building Better Opportunities was a project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and European Social Fund. The project supported projects in England that tackle poverty and promote social inclusion across Peterborough, Fenland and West Norfolk.
The BBO funding was delivered in 38 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas according to local priorities, which were set by the LEPs themselves. The project supported a variety of projects, ranging from those improving employability for the most disadvantaged, helping those with multiple and complex needs, to improving financial literacy.
The final report is available on the National Lottery Fund website.
Local Case Study
Our participant joined the eMploY-ABILITY project through our delivery partner, CPLT. She had been unemployed for 13 years whilst bringing up children and was low in confidence and suffering from anxiety.
She felt her IT skills needed refreshing and she needed support with job searching. Working with our Key Worker at PRC JobSmart, our participant completed a Computers for Intermediate course at the City College.
She also attended the PRC Jobsmart Mindset programme which supports emotional wellbeing and was able to access LifeMoney to help with financial worries and also Cruse where she was able to receive grief counselling.
After receiving this support and feeling more confident, we were able to place our participant on a CBT course to be able to drive a moped to work. She had several job searching sessions with Bev, our Key Worker and we are so very pleased to say that she exited the project in employment in the care sector.